Protecting Digital Legal Professional Privilege (LPP) Data

Author

Law, Frank Y.W. ; Lai, Pierre K.Y. ; Jiang, Zoe L. ; Ieong, Ricci S.C. ; Kwan, Michael Y.K. ; Chow, K.P. ; Hui, Lucas C K ; Yiu, S.M. ; Chong, C.F.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

fYear

2008

fDate

22-22 May 2008

Firstpage

91

Lastpage

101

Abstract

To enable free communication between legal advisor and his client for proper functioning of the legal system, certain documents, known as legal professional privilege (TPP) documents, can be excluded as evidence for prosecution. In physical world, protection of TPP information is well addressed and proper procedure for handling TPP articles has been established. However, there does not exist a forensically sound procedure for protecting "digital" TPP information. In this paper, we try to address this important, but rarely addressed, issue. We point out the difficulties of handling digital TPP data and discuss the shortcomings of the current practices, then we propose a feasible procedure for solving this problem.

Keywords

law administration; security of data; data handling; digital legal professional privilege data protection; evidence; information protection; prosecution; Cryptography; Data engineering; Digital forensics; Document handling; Law; Layout; Legal factors; Protection; Testing; Waste materials; 2-D hashing scheme; forensic procedure; integrity checking; legal professional privilege;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systematic Approaches to Digital Forensic Engineering, 2008. SADFE '08. Third International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Oakland, CA

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3171-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SADFE.2008.19

Filename

4545370